art history

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• 8/11/19
  

  Art and Defacement: Basquiat at the Guggenheim

  by Sam Ben-Meir

  The Guggenheim’s glance back to 1983 and the death of Michael Stewart accomplishes what art exhibitions should, but all too rarely do – it grants us perspective on our present moment.

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• 8/6/19
  

  Woodstock, The Moon Landing and Sesame Street, Too: 50 Years of American Cult Art

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The Norman Rockweel Museum is celebrating the year 1969 not with an exhibit about politics or history, but one about how artists showcased their work in that one, single year.

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• 7/30/19
  

  Leonardo da Vinci: Still a Genius 500 Years Later

  by Bruce Chadwick

  The Berkshire Museum, in Pittsfield, has a large and impressive exhibition called “Leonardo da Vinci: Machines in Motion,” produced by the Da Vinci Museum, in Florence, Italy.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  7/19/19
  

  75 Years After World War II Theft, a Painting Returns to Italy

  75 years after a German soldier made off with it, the small “Vase of Flowers” by Jan van Huysum returned. 

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• SOURCE: Art News
  6/22/2019
  

  Peter Selz, Curator and Art Historian Committed to the New, Is Dead at 100

  Peter Selz, whose enterprising curatorial vision helped shape the Berkeley Art Museum in California and the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the mid-20th century, died on Friday, according to the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archives.

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• SOURCE: Daily Mail
  5/21/19
  

  Art Historian Timothy Clifford has identified the earliest known Michelangelo drawing

  This sketch of the Seated Man is said to be the earliest-known Michelangelo, created when he was aged around 12.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  4/15/19
  

  ‘We Are Amplifying the Work’: France Starts Task Force on Art Looted Under Nazis

  Once the art market was flooded with works that had belonged to those fleeing Vichy.

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• 4/21/19
  

  How the New Deal’s Federal Arts Programs Created a New American History

  by Nina Silber

  Without government funding, it would have been almost impossible for this alternative narrative to gain much of a foothold in the public imagination. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  4/15/19
  

  Art Historian Caroline Bruzelius Discusses The History Of Paris' Notre Dame Cathedral

  NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with art historian Caroline Bruzelius about the Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, which caught on fire Monday.

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• 3/19/19
  

  Andy Warhol: A Lot More than Soup Cans

  by Bruce Chadwick

  A review of the Whitney Musem's exhibit Andy Warhol – From A to B and Back Again and a reflection on the artist. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  3/19/19
  

  A half-century before the hashtag, artists were on the front lines of #MeToo

  by Vivien G. Fryd

  The cultural prominence of rape and sexual assault might be new. Efforts to bring attention to the issue, however, are not.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/19
  

  John Richardson, Art Historian and Picasso Biographer, Is Dead at 95

  A celebrated raconteur, Mr. Richardson was described by W magazine as “the man all New York wants to sit beside at dinner."

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• 3/17/19
  

  Why is the Mona Lisa not the Mona Lisa?

  by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Brown

  New research suggests the famous painting in the Louvre does not depict Mona Lisa.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2/2/19
  

  ‘It’s a Beatle haircut’: historian claims 15th-century portrait is from the 1960s

  National Gallery’s 1450 portrait by Rogier van der Weyden was created in the 1960s by Eric Hebborn, says art historian.

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• SOURCE: Artsy
  1/28/19
  

  How Nuns Have Shaped the Course of Art History

  “We think of these nuns as imprisoned, but it was a very enriching world for them,” Linda Falcone told Artsy. 

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  1/2/19
  

  The Louvre is returning sculptures to West Africa. Here’s how and why it's happening.

  by John Warne Monroe

  France is finally facing up to its colonial legacy.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  10-12-16
  

  UK: Last art history A-level axed after Michael Gove cull of 'soft' subjects

  "A miserable and short-sighted decision."

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  11-3-15
  

  Art historians are using games to teach

  by Anne McClanan

  Anne McClanan discusses the pedagogical utility of incorporating gaming into art history and museum studies.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  2-21-14
  

  Bonnie Prince Charlie portrait found by art historian Bendor Grosvenor

  Grosvenor also revealed famous portrait previously accepted as genuine was actually of prince's younger brother Henry.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1-15-14
  

  Trove of Army’s art awaits a new museum

  Nearly 16,000 pieces of art are awaiting the opening of the National Museum of the United States Army.